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When a company runs into financial problems, it may suspend its dividend payments. When the company gets through the trouble and starts paying out dividends again, standard preferred stock shareholders possess no rights to receive any missed dividends but the holders of the ( ) shares will receive all dividend payments in arrears before preferred stockholders receive a payment.